Understood Jan, very useful, and I appreciate it.
In this case, I want to use Revolution as a front end to an existing database. I've loaded it into MySql now, and am getting somewhere. I'll report back when I've concluded everything.
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- Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:20 am
- Forum: Databases
- Topic: Unicode and mySQL
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- Thu Aug 12, 2010 7:54 am
- Forum: Databases
- Topic: Unicode and mySQL
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Re: Unicode and mySQL
Thanks Jan, As mentioned, I'm trying to read from Access or Excel databases. As far as I can determine, they do not support UTF8. Sure, you can save and export in UTF8, but the structure of the database itself, unlike (say) MySQL, can't be set to any other encoding than UTF16. I don't believer htmlT...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:39 pm
- Forum: Databases
- Topic: Unicode and mySQL
- Replies: 14
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Re: Unicode and mySQL
I don't follow that. What's special about PHP? It still needs to use an ODBC driver, does it not? I have the same issue as the OP. I'm trying to read Unicode data from an Access database. I've also tried from Excel ... but it appears that the same (Microsoft) drivers are used. I can't retrieve Unico...